Short Term Quotes

Short Term Quote of the day

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it.

We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term is wrong. What I care about is seeing these assets in the best hands

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.

What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem

Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal.

Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.

When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk.

From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

There's nothing as short as short-term debt.

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.